Well, to be fair, if you put his numbers into the context of that era, he had 5-6 very good years. And then consider that he was only healthy for maybe 7 years and was already washed up at 33. That's pretty good.

And you also have to consider where the country was at the time. It was the mid-60s. And before that people were expected to behave and dress a certain way. And Namath was maybe the first big-time anti-establishment athlete. He wasn't afraid to wear fur coats or be seen with more than one woman. And he even quit football momentarily because the NFL wanted him to sell his bar. He made his own rules, and still won. And for a lot of kids growing up at that time, that was the coolest thing they had ever seen. And that's Joe Maddon's generation.